Innovators Under 35
INNOVATIVE Pioneers
P4. Fabian Menges, 32
IBM
Research in Zurich
A method for measuring
temperatures at the nanoscale.
Problem: Complex microprocessors—like
those at the heart of autonomous driving and artificial intelligence—can
overheat and shut down. And when it happens, it’s usually the fault of an
internal component on the scale of nanometers. But for decades, nobody who
designed chips could figure out a way to measure temperatures down to the scale
of such minuscule parts.
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Solution: Fabian Menges,
a researcher at IBM Research in Zurich, Switzerland, has invented a scanning
probe method that measures changes to thermal resistance and variations in the
rate at which heat flows through a surface. From this he can determine the
temperature of structures smaller than 10 nanometers. This will let chipmakers
come up with designs that are better at dissipating heat.
—Russ Juskalian
—Russ Juskalian
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
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